PfSense has a captive portal and traffic shaper plus squid and squidguard as well. Should be a perfect setup plus pfsense doesn't really require a large machine to do so. I ran mine off a Dell Optiplex GX110 600Mhz P3 with 256mb ram for a year.
www.pfsense.com On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Andrew Farnsworth <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Steven S. Critchfield > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > ----- "Bucky 'Igneous' Wolfe" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Oh hey, forgot to mention another awesome thing you may want to add. > >> I > >> know this sounds nuts, but you could probably get a reasonable VPS > >> for > >> around $10 a month. Set up Ziproxy (a caching, compressing proxy) on > >> it, to compress images.. then point the squid proxy to the Ziproxy > >> vps.. _then_ point the in-house network computers to the squid > >> proxy/router. That will drastically cut down on bandwidth, and they > >> probably wouldn't notice anything was different. Also, there are > >> various ad-blocking proxies, that you may want to consider (I believe > >> Ziproxy actually does it). So they won't be downloading 1.5mb flash > >> ads, nor will they be downloading 800kb animated gifs for ONLINE > >> GAMBLING!!!). > > > > Along those same lines, there is a proxy called Privoxy available as a > > Debian package that does ad blocking and reduces animated gifs to one > > frame or so. If placed out on a VPS or similar, you could further cut > > down on downloaded content. > > > > As for Smoothwall, it is maintenance free, or so it has been so far. > > It has the ability to do all kinds of blocking of content. Plus if you > > set up static IPs for the DHCP to your local machines, you can access > > squid logs for each machine. I don't think you could get down to a per > > user though. Being as it is also a full linux install with ssh and > > such on it, you might be able to do some scripting to monitor users > > load and throttle it appropriately, just not from the web based console. > > Per user is not particularly an issue as each person has their own > laptop. However, kids being the way they are it would have been nice > to be able to automatically disconnect / timeout the user after X > minutes of no activity and require a password again. This would keep > brother from "abusing" the connection from his sisters computer and > vice versa. Shouldn't happen, but you know kids. > > Andy > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
